#350 Was 1986 the Best Year in Metal? Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Peace Sells Turn 40

“If you were gonna be a stripper…what would your stage name be?”

When you think about 1986, it’s almost hard to fathom that we are 40 years away from it. Four decades away from perhaps THE biggest year in metal, and we’re not just saying that because we were still young and impressionable, but because it was quite literally THAT epic of a year!

March, September, and October of 1986 gave us Master of Puppets, Peace Sells… (But Who’s Buying?), and Reign In Blood (respectively), and that’s only 3 albums of thrash greatness from that year!

There was also the (now classic) documentary “Heavy Metal Parking Lot”, showing a bunch of young metal heads pre-gaming for a Judas Priest show. And of course you had “Crossroads”, the favorite guitar movie of young fledgling woodshedding shredders who would become obsessed at mastering Eugene’s bag of tricks in order to conquer the dark fretboard sorcery of one Jack Butler.

Basically, when it comes to 1986 and metal, “everything that was good came out that year”, and now, over 14,000 days later, 1986 is still being celebrated and lauded as one of the biggest landmark years in all of metal, especially on this podcast!

Get ready to find out which movie is “basically Karate Kid…but guitars”, prepare for a grammar lesson from Down Under regarding the proper usage of one of their most popular words, discover the transformative power of “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning”, find out how “saddling” might be just the thing to spice up your bedroom game, and then JOIN US as we welcome “Juicebox” to the mainstage while we celebrate those who graduated MAGNUM CUM LOUDLY from THE CLASS OF 1986!!! Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merchand kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast

Show Notes: (00:01): “Step away for a second and we’re talking about shaving our balls…”/ “That’s the noise it makes…”/ Impossible Baby Maker Legend / “It reminds me of the old Crone story…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “This clinky, sponsored by, Evil Bean, coffee liqueur…”/ “The world’s largest micropenis…”/ “Somebody’s got the title of the world’s smallest macropenis…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “The Hog Story is hard to beat…”

(05:27): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US ON #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram and #TikTok & EMAIL US at [email protected] & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “G’day, cunts…”/ Aussie Dave’s grammatical analysis of the word ‘cunt’ / “Geoff is apparently a long time listener ‘from the beginning’…”/ “Let’s just say he’s from Australasia…”/ “Let me go kill the dog…”/ “I’m starting to run out of gas doing hand solos…I need a lady…”/ #AlienWeaponry (Te Ra – 2025) MAU MOKO / “Are they singing in English?” / “Speaking of Swedish…”/ #Waipu / #TheGentleArtOfSwedishDeathCleaning

(17:13): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: THE CLASS OF ’86 / “Wait, don’t paint THAT picture…”/ “Everything that was good came out that year…”/ “We did do a 1986 episode about 5 years ago…but we were a different podcast then…this is the 40th class reunion of 1986…”/ The Top Rock Radio songs of 1986 / “Big bands…big logs…”/ “That’s Dave wearing tribal face…”/#DavidLeeRoth YANKEE ROSE (Eat ‘Em and Smile – 1986) / “Remember that movie Crossroads?”/ #EugenesBagOfTricks / “I was trying to learn how to finger correctly…”/ “It’s basically Karate Kid…but guitars.”/ “Don’t you think Get Up is bordering on thrash?”/ #VanHalen GET UP (5150 – 1986) / “It’s more CFH than thrash…”

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